In partnership with JOMBA! one of South Africa’s leading dance festivals, LDIF22 presents a selection of dance shorts from six Durban-based dance makers.  The artists were asked to work loosely around the theme of Border Crossings, embracing the opportunity to re-imagine their creativity and their dance work for a digital space. Sabelo Cele | Uhambo…

The theme for both the festival and conference for Let’s Dance International Frontiers 2022 is In Situ: Responding to Space, Place, People and Time.  Dance can be anywhere, in a studio, on screen, in the streets, on a stage, dance can bring communities together, share lived experiences beyond barriers and express moments of joy.  Dance…

LDIF+ is Let’s Dance International Frontiers’ year-round programme supporting continuing professional development opportunities for dancers and choreographers.  For LDIF22 the masterclasses cover a range of techniques rooted in the richness of the African and African Caribbean Diaspora. Makeda Thomas is a New York/Port of Spain based dance artist and founding director of the Dance and…

Ballet Hispánico brings communities together to celebrate and explore Latino cultures through innovative dance productions, transformative dance training, and community engagement.  An eclectic fusion of contemporary and Latin dance forms, work alongside Ballet Hispánico to learn more about their repertoire as a resource providing access points for movement, socio-political and cultural context. Serendipity Connect members…

John Hunte is an accomplished performer, arts activist, choreographer, teacher and consultant.  Executive Director of the Barbados Dance Project, Hunte was artistic coordinator for CARIFESTA XIII and a former Cultural Officer for Dance at the National Cultural Foundation (NCF).  Hunte is currently a tutor at the Barbados Community College and lecturer at the UWI Cave…

Aimed at promoters, programmers and producers, this in conversation is an opportunity to hear more from the artists participating in the Black British Dance Platform.  In collaboration with Dance4.

Two collaborative solo works, first shared as part of LDIF’s online programmes in 2020 and 2021, come to life with Leicester’s historic Guildhall as a backdrop. The Disappearing Act Yinka Esi Graves The Disappearing Act is a solo exploration of the ways in which Black women articulate their resistances to negation by Yinka Esi Graves. …

A roundtable conversation with Thomas Talawa Prestø discussing his PhD research and the steps we need to take to unpack and decolonise dance practice, with specific reference to the African and African Caribbean Diaspora This event is free to Serendipity Connect members. Join us.

The Black British Ballet project aims to celebrate and document the careers of Black dancers and choreographers in British ballet in the past century. This conversation seeks to open the doors for future collaboration and development. blackbritishballet.com